Recipe 8.24 Selecting Text with ActionScript

8.24.1 Problem

You want to highlight a portion
of the text within a text field.

8.24.2 Solution

Use the Selection.setSelection( ) method.

8.24.3 Discussion

The Selection class has a static method,
setSelection( ), which highlights a portion of
the text in the text field. The selection is applied to the text
field that has focus (see Recipe 8.23). The setSelection(
) method takes two parameters: